President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday received the United Nations’ proposed budget for 2027, a first for a Nigerian president in 66 years, according to the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, who has chaired the UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, the body responsible for administrative and budgetary matters, since 3 September, presented the seven-volume proposal submitted by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The Fifth Committee is the General Assembly committee responsible for administrative and budgetary questions, which places its chair at the centre of the negotiations that follow the Secretary-General’s proposal. Ibrahim took up the chair on 3 September.
He is the first Nigerian president in 66 years to receive the UN budget from the United Nations.
The proposal
The proposal sets out a regular budget of about $3.4 billion and a peacekeeping budget of about $8.5 billion.
Ibrahim noted that the document remains a proposal for consideration by UN member states.
“He is the first Nigerian president in 66 years to receive the UN budget from the United Nations,” the ambassador said.
Nigeria at the table
Chairing the Fifth Committee places Nigeria at the centre of negotiations over how the UN funds its work, from its regular operations to its peacekeeping missions.
The milestone came on the same day the President hosted the City Boy Movement and other youth groups at State House, where he told supporters that the country was “on the right trajectory.”
The milestone caps a busy period for the President. On 14 October he inaugurated the APC Presidential Campaign Council at the Presidential Villa, and earlier in the month the World Bank reported that Nigeria’s economy grew by 4.2 per cent in the first half of 2026, a finding the President said shows his reforms are on track.
The UN budget will now be considered by member states. In Nigeria, attention returns to the campaign trail, with the APC’s nationwide rally programme opening in Kaduna on Saturday 24 October, ahead of the presidential election on 16 January 2027.
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